The right and the left of it

James Long
Oct 22, 2023
1 min read

Poetry is

Unswallowable contradiction.

Bespoke words, precise, to grasp and hold

Rip-torrent skies and wine-dark waves.

Careful

Measured

Meter

To sing a star

To still the river in a thunders flash

and house the laws of harmony

Poetry is

to be human then

Finally

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